First successful kidney transplant was performed
In 1954, surgeon Joseph Murray performed the first successful kidney transplant on identical twins at Peter Bent Brigham.
In 1954, surgeon Joseph Murray performed the first successful kidney transplant on identical twins at Peter Bent Brigham.
In 1954, the Priestley Medal was awarded to W. Albert Noyes, Jr. by the American Chemical Society “to…
In 1954, JOHNSON’S Baby Shampoo with NO MORE TEARS formula entered the market as the first mild and…
In 1954, Miller Pesticide Amendment spelled out procedures for setting safety limits for pesticide residues on raw agricultural…
In 1954, First large-scale radiological examination of food carried out by FDA when it received reports that tuna…
In 1954, John Franklin Enders and Thomas C. Peebles isolated measles virus from an 11-year-old boy, David Edmonston….
In 1954, John Enders, known as “the Father of Modern Vaccines” and Thomas Peebles isolated the measles virus…
In 1954, the National Rabies Control Activities Unit was established, providing a coordinated program for all aspects of…
In 1954, Dr. Thomas Francis, Jr., University of Michigan, directed field trials of Salk vaccine sponsored by NFIP….
In 1954, The McLaughlin Research Institute began with the arrival of Dr. Ernst Eichwald, recruited as a pathologist…
In 1954, Dr. Mary Carpenter became the first female member of Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) scientific staff…
In 1954, the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Child Development and Rehabilitation Center (CDRC), formerly known as…
In 1954, Linus Carl Pauling (B.Sc., Chemical Engineering, Oregon State University, 1922) was awarded the Nobel Prize for…
In 1954, Dr. Jonas Salk and associates develop a potentially safe injectable vaccine against polio given to nearly…
In 1955, the Iowa Lions Eye Bank was established at the University of Iowa Medical Center. In 1954,…
In 1954, D. Weinman and A.H Chandler suggested T. gondii transmission via consumption of undercooked meat. in 1956,…
On Dec. 17, 1953, Howard Hughes signed documents that created the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, formed with the…
On Dec. 7, 1953, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved methotrexate, an antimetabolite derived from folic…
In October 1953, ground was broken for the first building of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, now…
On Jul. 30, 1953, the U.S. Small Business Administration was official with the Small Business Act, but it…
On Jul. 2, 1953, the National Cancer Institute inaugurated a full-scale clinical research program in the new Clinical…
On May 22, 1953, thre yellow fever vaccine (Merrell National Labs) was first licensed in the U.S.
On May 16, 1953, Dr. Jonas Salk initiated the first community-based pilot trial of the Polio vaccine in…
On Apr. 25, 1953, Nature published James Watson’s and Francis Crick’s 900-word manuscript describing the double helical structure…
On Apr. 11, 1953, the Federal Security Agency (FSA) becomes the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW)….
On Mar. 28, 1953, Dr. Jonas Salk and his team published a landmark article in the Journal of…
On Mar. 15, 1953, the day following his 74th birthday, Albert Einstein formally agreed to permit his name…
On Mar. 1, 1953, the University of California Radiation Laboratory, now known as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory…
On Feb. 28, 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick announced the discovery of the double helical structure of…
On Jan. 27, 1953, the Cancer Research Institute was founded by Helen Coley Nauts, and is the worldメs…